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I’m interviewing Deb Chachra at Bookpeople

Later this month I’m interviewing my friend Deb Chachra about her book, How Infrastructure Works.

Details about the event are here. 

Mandy Brown wrote about the book in a recent post, “Against Optimization”: 

Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory…. Another way to look at this is that you cannot optimize for resilience. Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity.

This is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been writing about in another project about building creative environments, so it’ll be fun to revisit the book and come up with good questions for Deb. 

RSVP here.

Read Like an Artist Zine + Independent Bookstore Day 2022 events

To celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2022 and the 10th anniversary of the Steal Like an Artist, my publisher Workman and I produced a free 12-page glossy zine called “Read Like an Artist,” with 10 tips for a better life with books.

Here is a very short list of the bookstores who ordered a ton (250+) of copies:

There are literally hundreds of bookstores participating, so check with your favorite local indie to see if they got copies!

If you live in Austin, Texas or nearby, on Saturday, April 30, I’ll be at two of my favorite bookstores here in town, signing and drawing in my books and hand-selling my favorites.

10AM-12PM – I’ll be at Bookpeople, our flagship store in town. Get there early — they should have around 100 zines.

2PM-4PM – I’ll be at Black Pearl Books, my hyper-local neighborhood shop. They’ll have about 25 zines, so they might be out by the time I show up.

Our friends at Bookwoman should have about 100 copies, too, so that might actually be your best bet for snagging one in the 512 area code. (If you’re down south, I just found out that Reverie Books has a handful, too.)

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SXSW 2022


On Friday, March 18th, I’ll be back at SXSW giving a talk to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Steal Like an Artist, followed by a book signing.

I did not know how my first in-person event in 2 years was going to go, but I have to say, I had a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came out — the signing was almost an hour long! Loved seeing y’all.

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